mikenmild

starboard
Fuck you are ignorant. The Moriori are the inhabitants of the Chatham Islands. There were no pre-Maori inhabitants of New Zealand. I know you’re an old fart and maybe got taught wrong at school, but you don’t have to cherish your ignorance.

stigie

starboard

ahhh thats better..back trendsetters, now..fuck you MM you hysterical little bald man. Murri were here second..Moriori are NZ’s first peoples. That is a fact and you need to get it through your t-h-i-c-k head ..wakey wakey little fella.

renderer

Ms Bright do you DENY that you took “donations” to enable your trip to Australia. Is this not a little deceitful given that in the past you have claimed your only income is from your “boarders”. Do you declare this income to Inland Revenue?

Nostradamus

Johnboy:

When Richie gets a pilots job at Air New Zealand dad will you get jealous that all of us can get to go flying with him?

So who serves in-flight drinks for thirsty bloggers? We need someone with impeccable customer service skills and the ability to perform at high-altitude, under pressure, without losing the plot. Any thoughts?

This sort of thing just gets my goat. Parents in Queensland, Australia published a ‘retraction’ in the local newspaper Births and Deaths section to say that, opps, the daughter they gave birth to was, in fact, a son (because that’s the way she he sees herself himself now).

In 1995 we announced the arrival of our sprogget Elizabeth Anne, as a daughter. Oops! Our bad. He informs us that we were mistaken. We would now like to present our wonderful son Kai Bogert.

Where will this madness end? Utter stupidity. Sorry, parents – you were right the first time. To have parents apologizing for being “mistaken” about their child’s sex because the child has chosen another one is complete idiocy.

mikenmild

you reap what you sow

John Key is rattling the terrorism sabre, we’re all terribly scared that the girl next door is being radicalized and is going to blow us to smithereens.
Holy Moly. Panic.
It’s a crazy war but let’s show them, we can do crazy too.
Let’s send troops.

That’s just it. They’re serious. A few years back we would have all laughed at this as being ridiculous but now people have this idea that they can actually change what gender they are just by willing it or something. It’s actually insanity, and they want society to be complicit in it (which, obviously, many of the people leaving comments are). These people need a shock of reality.

Johnboy

I very much doubt that Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers would have taken the notion of a person deciding on a gender opposite their real one seriously. They probably would have had such a person committed to an asylum.

Johnboy

Raunchy parties at the tax/ratepayers expense should be supported Maggy, specially if they encourage alternate lifestyle folks to let themselves go for it ……as long as the horse’s/taxi driver’s aren’t frightened! 🙂

Andrei

stigie

SPC

Our spooks suspect that (presumably Moslem) women travelling to Iraq and Syria are doing so to marry jihadists and live in IS (most likely refugees visiting relatives to pick up husbands to bring back).

Given the jihadist bride type normally go to Turkey and cross the border into Syria, I think we can regard this “intelligence” as dubious in worth.

starboard

Aliog

@Maggy – thanks for that! Yes, I’m a bloke, but given my heritage I’d rather drink my single malt than rub it in my overheated member 🙂 But you made my evening…and I may try your remedy for my contact lenses.

Aliog

@mikenmild – I have no idea why you engage with starboard. Like igm, he’s a nasty wee fuckwit who poisons debate. Save your efforts for where they have more impact! But I’ll keep upticking you if you persist in putting the boot in 🙂

ngatimozart

I am all for the NZ Land Wars being commemorated in some way, maybe not as a public holiday, but similar to Armistice Day. Regardless of whether you were Maori or Pakeha, the land wars were a significant part of our history and played a significant part in the formation of this country. Maori came close to defeating the British and forcing them out, because it was costing the British govt a fortune to keep the army here and to support the colony. By the 1860s serious thought was being given to withdrawing because of the cost. However that didn’t happen as history tells us. Those who fought, both Maori and Pakeha, should be remembered and commemorated because they fought for their country and their people.

Left Right and Centre

I cycle to my supermarket with varying frequency. Sometimes daily. Sometimes twice a week. And usually late evening. And I’ve been doing that for almost two years.

Last night I’m doing that – and there’s a cop car blocking the footpath. One male copper on his own gets out. Where have you come from ? My house. He seems to assume that I’m probably not the badarse and relaxes. We’re looking for badarses – dogs tracking them etc. Ok, well – I hope you catch them. And off I go on my cycle path.

Until I come to a second copper – all by herself. So I stop. This time it’s name, address, date of birth. All has to be tapped into a tablet and then let’s wait all day while the system clears me. And now let’s take some on the street mugshot photos. I said – is there a limit to this ? Her: have you ever been burgled ? Me: yes I have – on such and such date / year. Then she got picked up while I asked for a name or badge – which I still have.

I’m trying to look up my basic rights now for next time I’m on the street. What happens to the photos ? We delete them in a day or two if they’re deemed not needed. Oh cool – I’m just lawfully riding my bike mate – I didn’t ask for any of this shit – how much are they allowed to do ? I can’t find anything in a hurry that says these clowns can take mugshots of people who happen to be somewhere near a call out. Nearly two years and hundreds of trips. Bad timing that time.

And think about this – what kind of **fucking MORON** who has just committed a crime would cycle up to a cop car from 100s of metres away ? On a pushbike ?

These are the same type of two minute noodle cops as the ones who actually slowed down to ask me – dressed in running gear out running early one morning with mp3 beanie and headphones shoes and shorts – if I was ‘just out for a run?’ Fucking hell. It’s obvious what I was doing and without reasonable grounds to think otherwise they should’ve left me to carry on my lawful activity. The time of day makes NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE. It’s just as legal to run at 3am as it is at 3pm. Questioning people with no reasonable grounds whatsoever is harassment in my view. I don’t require any interaction with gimps as I go about my lawful activity. Nothing but a baseless rude interuption. What were they going to do ? Stop me and run me through the system ? Why ? Based on what ? Suspicious activity ? You can never be too careful ? Looks like a jogger but . . . but, but what ? What, fuck it, what ?? You just want to check every cunt no matter what they look like and that’s my point. They’re not parole officers that I need to ‘check-in with’. So therefore – just being on the street would be grounds enough to stop a person for their name and address – where have you been – what are you doing – fuck me, really ? You need clearance to be on a street. He’s ok, he’s ok. They’re vetting everyone on the grounds of why not just ID everyone we come across ? Yeah, why not ? There’s nothing control state about that, is there ?

Ok – you’ve got a clean record – walking along the street – cops stop to question you. What’s the minimum you have to do ? Can they take a mugshot ?

What sort of gets me is – they were called out – so every poor unfortunate bugger on the street – that’s it. You get caught up in it. If that had been a rape or murder, what does that mean ? That – because it happened on my cycle route when I go through that I’ll be a suspect just through sheer bad luck while going about my lawful business ? You were in the area – so – it could’ve been you – you’re coming with us – bad luck.

Manolo

FBI agents found an empty GoPro package, shooting targets and tools inside a car belonging to the mother of San Bernardino mass shooter Syed Farook.

Documents confirm the car was insured by Farook’s 62-year-old mother Rafia, who lived in the same home in Redlands, California, where he and Malik built pipe bombs and stored thousands of rounds of ammunition.

Manolo

German police were forced to pepper-spray a fare dodging Islamist on Sunday after he reacted badly to having his ticket checked, attacking officers, trying to snatch a police handgun and screaming “Allah hu Akbar”.

The 23-year-old Moroccan ‘asylum seeker’ spoke no German and savagely attacked police on Sunday in Osnabrück station, hospitalising two and injured a third.

mikenmild

LR&C
If you are not driving, you do not have to provide a Police officer with any information at all, unless you are arrested. I’m not sure whether they can take your photograph – it’s probably legal for them to photograph anyone in public, but I doubt that you are compelled to co-operate at all.

Left Right and Centre

mm – thanks. I’d still like to see how that’s treated by law – I’ll have to look for statutes etc

Which pisses me off because if I’d known that I would’ve simply said sorry – don’t have to give you any of that info – and what did they then do with it ?

And what about the time I was out running ? Roxanne – you don’t have to put on the red (and blue) light(s). Fucking idiots.
Over zealous power tripping cowboys. Police ? Puh-lease !! What – they put on the squad lights to question me while I was running ? The standards and quality has dropped right off – getting some real noddy muppets who seem a wafer thin slice intellectually more capable than parking wardens.